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    New to me BX23S w/ Backhoe

    Bight the bullet and buy a kabota factory repair manual. The other best alternative is to pay a journey tractor mechanic to maintain. You still need to be educated, to be able ask intelligent questions,i.e., study a factory manual. Then there's the shotgun approach! Mine is @ 290 hrs, and I love...
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    Perventative maintenance tips

    Ways to protect or control. The bike shop gives me inner tubes out of the garbage. I cut them up for loops to hold bundles together. Vise grips handles together, etc. Protecting valves/sleeves? How about a CV axle boot as a replacement for that desintagrating tractor shift boot. Protecting...
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    Rust Busters...

    I haven't used all the concoctions that could be, but I have understudied 45+ years ago of a WW2 radial mechanic who built racing V8 flat heads. "Maltby" may be a best peretrant you have never heard of.
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    Kubota Orange paint @ Home Depot

    Welded 3 chain hooks on my new BX23S and of all the different oranges I had nothing matched. Not red enough. Box store search for rustoleum or krylon in kabota/tractor orange, or Chevrolet high-heat engine (forum recom.)and no one had any. Auto parts house ha" Dupli-Color" brand Chevrolet...